Help using preg_match for phone numbers
- by Kirk
how would i write an if statement that would find phone numbers and store them to a variable. Here is what i have so far but its not working.
if (preg_match('/^(?:(?:\+?1\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?(?:\(\s*([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9])\s*\)|([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-8]1|[2-9][02-8][02-9]))\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?)?([2-9]1[02-9]|[2-9][02-9]1|[2-9][02-9]{2})\s*(?:[.-]\s*)?([0-9]{4})(?:\s*(?:#|x\.?|ext\.?|extension)\s*(\d+))?$
/', $buffer, $matches))
{
$phonenumber = html_entity_decode($matches[1]);
}
